Ron Gutman argues that digital health companies should view competitors as partners and focus on user experience over market share. He believes this approach strengthens the entire ecosystem rather than just individual players.
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Yeah, I think that we are very focused in looking forward, Right. I mean, I think that my philosophy is wear the yellow jersey, right? So be innovative, do the new things, push the envelope. Right? Try to do the new things. And then you have, obviously you have followers if you go in the right direction. I mean, you know, we started with our philosophy and what we're doing right now with virtual care about five years ago. Before it was very cool to do digital health and all these kind of things, and now it's became very cool. But we started way before that. Now we have a lot of people trying to do what we're doing, which is great. I mean, it's validation to what we're doing. But I don't spend a ton of time looking at what other people are doing. I'm really focused on the user. I'm really focused on the experience. I really focus about what problems we're trying to solve and really figure out how to provide most value in this environment. I think that the interesting thing about the stage of where we are as a company right now is that we're trying to think about, rather than think about other players in the industry as competition, trying to think about them as potential partners. And how can we empower them with what we have to do what they're doing better? Because even if we can't solve all the use cases, we have a lot of underlying assets that we can provide to partners to help them do what they're doing better so they can focus on use cases that we're not focusing and make the entire ecosystem better when everyone benefits from it. Right. So this is the kind of thing that we're thinking about right now.